Sheesh … first the long snowshoe (Wednesday) and on Thursday I did a bit more snow clearing than was wise.

That’s what I felt like. My only consolation is that when I joined our Thursday, early afternoon work session and admitted that I was feeling my age, a co-worker had a similar feeling from a bike ride.

We had a short work session!

Then I took a short nap.

Friday, I was “feelin’ my oats” again, but exercised a bit of caution and went on a medium length snowshoe outing. When I returned, I had a bloody nose which took a bit of effort to get stopped. I am not prone to this and the day was warmer and more humid than the previous cold and dry days, so ???

Anyway, between that and wanting to stay quiet-ish and not restart things … we’ll call Friday something between a sick day and a mental health day, i.e. it was a no work day :(

We started Saturday watching the 23rd finish by Manuel Cousin of his Vendee Globe race. There are 2 more racers on the course and 2 sailors who are finishing their circumnavigation out of the race due to issues that forced them to port to fix. The people of Les Sables d’Olonne turn out as much as they are able (a LOT) due to COVID-19 restrictions … every sailor gets a hero’s welcome and from comments and view numbers, other internet followers like me are watching each sailor home as well!

The reason for the extra snow clearing on Thursday, was to allow delivery by FedEx of my new computer – YEA!!

I started the set up about Saturday noon…

It actually went very well – much better and faster than setting up my back up machine … partly because I just went through the process and made some notes :) … and partly because there were some things already set up that I did not have to download (Office 365 being the major and largest download).

At any rate, all was ready to go and approved by Emmett, by midday Sunday. I will likely find little things that I forgot to transfer or setup, but my work tools and most of my fun stuff is up and running. I’m happy with the new machine so far!

During the waiting for download prompts, I worked on my loop yarn throw …

Finished!!

I need to find a nicer dog blankie for the little sofa seat … but I am very happy with the throw. It did get a bit tedious toward the end. Overall, I enjoy the crochet squares for the large afghan I’m working on, but this was mostly fun.

Sunday treat in honor of getting things done and really, I don’t need a reason … I was hungry for eclairs and they are easy so I made a small batch. YUM!

And, we were outside for walks and play and learning new things! It is getting ugly as it warmed up, snow dropped off the trees, the wind blew and brought down branches … but there were some pretty moments and best is getting out in the air and tromping around with Emmett. Auggie stayed near the house out out of the mess!

The above mess was a squirrel’s …

So, despite the challenging end to last week, it was a good weekend. Lots of things got done and here we go Monday!

Oh, the movie. I have all of the bits of video organized. Now … maybe midweek after some work deadlines, I can take some time to put it together!!